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It's the diameter of the barrel of the gun and is worked out by how many identical pellets can be nade from a pound of lead to fit the barrel?

 

I think you've got it right.......

 

12 bore is sized to fit the diameter of a perfect sphere of pure lead weighing one twelth of a pound.....

ie divide a pound of lead into 12 equal lumps - and make one into a ball.

The bore sizes date from the time when muskets were made to fire a single solid ball of lead, and gunsmiths first needed a standardised, easily calibrated sizing system.

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Not that I am bovvered (look at da face) but why does keehotee's 1/5 ding count more than the rest of us cow fanciers?... and for that matter what about poor old SP whom you cruelly usurped to launch your bovine excursion? :(:santa::D

I've no idea who started the last ding sets the next question rule but its been used for the last few months now, so I kept with tradition.

 

As for usurping Simply Paul, I did acknowledge the fact that I was hi-jacking and was sorry to SP and offered that he could set the next question I get correct. He hasn't logged in for a few days, so to keep the thread going I set a question.

 

I apologise to all if I overstepped the mark. It won't happen again.

I'm back to the party pretty late. Sorry folks! Big thanks to JackieC for stepping in for me. It was quite the right thing to do as far as I'm concerned. No foul, play on! :D
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Okay - what do the following names all have in common - and from which country do they come?

Babadimri

Julemanden

Joulupukki

Naththal Seeya

Dedo Mraz

Joulupukki is scandinavian, they use something similar in Estonia, Jouluvanna (where I'm of to on Sunday...work not pleasure), so I guess Latvia, Finland, Sweden area xmas-smiley-7647.gif

A ding to The Lavender Hill Mob for Finland

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A ding to The Lavender Hill Mob for Finland

Gah! Missed the opportunity to answer on my specialist subject!

 

Pukki is "goat" so Joulupukki actually means christmas-goat, and the modern jolly ho-ho-ho character has been grafted on to an older character with an unsavoury past. I'm not sure of the details but given that huoripukki (fornication-goat?) is the term for a dirty old man, it does make you wonder ...

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A ding to The Lavender Hill Mob for Finland

Gah! Missed the opportunity to answer on my specialist subject!

 

Pukki is "goat" so Joulupukki actually means christmas-goat, and the modern jolly ho-ho-ho character has been grafted on to an older character with an unsavoury past. I'm not sure of the details but given that huoripukki (fornication-goat?) is the term for a dirty old man, it does make you wonder ...

 

I'm sorry? But was your specialist subject Finland, goats or dirty old men? :rolleyes:

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